On closer inspection, though, it turns out that the tweet wasn’t unprovoked after all; it appears to have been inspired by that night’s installment of The O’Reilly Factor.

Which raises an important question: Just how much TV does our new president watch every single day?

We’ve known for a while that Donald Trump loves the boob tube as much as anyone—or perhaps more. He’s obsessed with ratings, even tweeting Tuesday night to congratulate Fox News for garnering more viewers during his inauguration than CNN.

But it’s more than ratings: early on in the campaign, Trump told Chuck Todd on Meet the Press that he gets military advice from TV pundits. He couldn’t get through a 50-minute Washington Post interview without repeatedly looking at the TV and commenting about what was on it. In November, during the transition, the Post noted that, based on his biography, “He watches enormous amounts of television all through the night.” And just this week, a source told Politico that Trump’s aides are being forced to try and curb some of his “worst impulses”—including TV-watching, apparently: “He gets bored and likes to watch TV. . . so it is important to minimize that.”

And little has changed since he arrived in the White House on Friday: according to report published in the New York TimesWednesday, Trump’s “meetings now begin at 9 a.m., earlier than they used to, which significantly curtails his television time. Still, Mr. Trump, who does not read books, is able to end his evenings with plenty of television.”

What does Trump watch? According to Axios, he’s got the morning and evening news shows on TiVo “so he can watch the tops of all of them. Always 60 Minutes. Often Meet the Press.” (Yes, he apparently still uses TiVo.) When Billy Bush was still on the program, Axios reports Trump also watched Access Hollywood “every night.”

Most mornings, Trump flicks on the TV and watches Morning Joe, often
for long periods of time, sometimes interrupted with texts to the
hosts or panelists. After the 6 A.M. hour of Joe, he’s often on to
Fox & Friends by 7 A.M., with a little CNN before or after. He also catches the Sunday shows, especially Meet the Press. “The shows,” as
he calls them, often provoke his tweets. The day of our interview with
him, all of his tweet topics were discussed during the first two hours
of Morning Joe.

It’s unclear, as of now, whether his presidential responsibilities will eventually cut into Trump’s screen time—though as Politico mentioned, some Trump staffers are at least attempting to curb Trump’s TV enthusiasm. According to Axios, however, that might be an impossible mission: ”The notion he will surrender the remote, or Twitter, or his grievances with reporters is pure fantasy. Aides talk of giving him ‘better choices’ or jamming his schedule with meetings to keep him away from reading about or watching himself on TV. But this is an addiction he will never kick.” At least we’ll be able to use his reactions to gauge whether or not that week’s Saturday Night Live was worth watching.